Anandi Mishra is an essayist and critic who has worked as a reporter for The Times of India and The Hindu. One of her essays has been translated into Italian and published in the Internazionale magazine. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Public Books, Electric Literature, LitHub, Virginia Quarterly Review, Popula, The Brooklyn Rail, and Al Jazeera, among others. She tweets at @anandi010.
Anandi Mishra
Articles
Young, Lonely, and Awkward: On Dur e Aziz Amna’s “American Fever”
Anandi Mishra reviews Dur e Aziz Amna’s debut novel “American Fever.”
Love Is a Cutthroat Business: On Naheed Phiroze Patel’s “Mirror Made of Rain”
A dark, brooding novel that explores the fissures of family with delicacy and conviction.
Learning Bengali and Comparing Notes with Jhumpa Lahiri’s “In Other Words”
Anandi Mishra overcomes the obstacles of language in “Learning Bengali.”
Paris from the Window Seat: On Lauren Elkin’s “No. 91/92: A Diary of a Year on the Bus”
Anandi Mishra is transported by “No. 91/92: A Diary of a Year on the Bus” by Lauren Elkin.
India’s Lockdown of the Mind
Anandi Mishra reviews Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee's essay collection about COVID-19 in India, "The Town Slowly Empties."
The Social Safety Net Is Women
Anandi Mishra on the economic toll that COVID-19 has had on India's women.
Walking with Fran
Anandi Mishra discusses the recent docuseries “Pretend It’s a City” through the lens of the flâneur and her own experiences walking through rural India.
The Case for Loitering
Anandi Mishra meanders through “Aimlessness,” the new book by Tom Lutz.
Chai Stories from the Pandemic
Anandi Mishra reflects on the comforting tastes holding her steady during the pandemic.
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